Women's Soccer Starts Season Off Strong

Stephanie Hulke

The College of Wooster women's soccer team hosted the Wooster Classic this past weekend (Sept. 1-2), and came away with a pair of regulation wins to start off 2-0 for the first time since 1995.

On Saturday, Wooster followed up Mt. Union College's 2-1 victory against Oberlin College at Carl Dale Memorial Field with a 1-0 shutout of Walsh University.

The lone score came 21:24 into the match via junior Beth Hemminger with an assist from classmate Nicole DeSantis, while goalkeeper Nicole Roman, another member of the junior class, registered six saves en route to her eighth career shutout.

Sunday's action was highlighted by an offensive onslaught by the Scot booters, as they found the back of the net time and again during their 6-2 win over Mt. Union. Senior Stephanie Hulke led the way with two goals and two assists, while junior Jessica Bacon tacked on two goals herself. In fact, Bacon scored the match's first two tallies within the opening 7:48, both of which were assisted by Hulke.

After the Purple Raiders had pulled within 3-2 early in the second stanza, senior Liz Martin put away any thoughts of a comeback with her first score of the new campaign. She scored after receiving a crossing pass from Hemminger, giving her a second assist on the day after earlier helping out on Hulke's first score which had made it a 3-1 game.

Wooster went on to add another Hulke goal via a penalty kick, and later got an unassisted score off the foot of junior Lindsay Zella.

In goal, Roman split time with classmate Adrienne Walts, as Roman made one save in the opening half and Walts had three in the second 45 minutes.

In other action on Sunday, Walsh eased past Oberlin 3-2.